12 months, 2 weeks and 3 days: submit

West Oakland to Civic Center (closed). Police. Exit Mission 16th. Take car. Arrive, art studios (temporary until the tech company moves in). Wait with coffee. Droplets on toilet. Wipe with crumpled seat cover. Bottled water. The documentary on bottled water. The meeting, the interview, the tour. The app says there’s enough money to get home but not to take a car. Walk to Civic Center. Civic to West Oakland. Honda Civic to Thornhill Ave. Park, take all belongings. Enter. Exit with child. Lady with Lexus and smashed out window in driveway. Footage, you tell her. The neighbor across the street will have footage. This happened to you in April. He drove a silver Audi. The comment posted online read, “someone that owns a $50,000 car doesn’t have to break into a 96 Honda Civic.” Civic to Lakeshore. Exit. Walk to smoothie spot. Tantrum. Dirty hair, skin. Uphill, up up up. Dinner, music, drumming, bath. Clean shirt, mama, clean shirt. Email thoughts, task thoughts, text, text, text. As an experiment, try taking the word mother out.